The endless days of awful cold, ice, and snow eased up if albeit momentarily this past weekend with highs in the low 50s. It seemed like everyone decided to come out of the woodwork; the indoor was super crowded with lessons and boarders riding so after warming up, Rori and I decided to venture out on our first solo trail ride.
There were puddles from all the melting ice and snow and a
steady blustering wind that rushed through the trees which could have been problem
areas but Rori was fine through it all. Part of our route cut through an open grass
field on the farm property that was still laden with crisp snow which she
gamely plunged into at first but looked back at me as if to question my sanity why
we were struggling through snow drifts when there was a nicely plowed tractor
path running right alongside. I acquiesced with a laugh and we finished the
rest of the trail on friendlier footing. Halfway through our ride, we passed by
two boarders hand walking their horses on the trail, Rori stood nice and still
while we exchanged introductions and she got complimented too. It was quite
well deserved, according to the GPS we walked 2.1 miles in about 40 minutes. We
have a ways to go by CTR standards but more importantly, I was happy and I think Rori enjoyed it
as well.
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